IT'S billed as the world's most dangerous magic show and it's coming to Southampton for one night only. 

Prepare to be dazzled, petrified and astounded when X-Treme Magic comes to Mayflower Theatre on Tuesday October 18 as part of a 12-date UK theatre tour. 

Created in Las Vegas and rehearsed over a period of two years, X-Treme Magic has been designed to shock and thrill. With death-defying, edge-of-your-seat stunts, sensational stage illusions, daredevil escapology, and mind-blowing magic, audiences will leave with minds boggled.

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The show stars master illusionist Richard Cadell, who received rave reviews in last year's Mayflower pantomime Cinderella with his puppet Sooty and will return for Goldilocks and the Three Bears this Christmas. 

He will be joined by a full supporting cast including Britain’s Got Talent winner Richard Jones, John Archer, from Penn & Teller’s Fool Us, international award-winning quick-change artiste Solange Kardinaly and, making his UK debut acclaimed manipulator Arkadio José. They'll appear alongside fire artists, speciality acts and dancers.

Watch motorcycles appear from nowhere, Russian Roulette being played with sticks of Dynammite and an escape from a straitjacket while hanging from a burning rope.

Daily Echo:

Richard Cadell told the Daily Echo: "Forget card tricks and hankies - this is thrilling magic the scale of which has never been seen in the UK before. We have uniquely combined circus skills and genuine danger with some of the most mind-boggling illusions ever imagined.

"It's such a thrill. I had one near miss a couple of years ago and if it wasn’t for the quick thinking of one of my assistants, I wouldn’t be here to tell the story. Let’s just say it involved a chainsaw. It gave me an immediate fear of that stunt but I had to overcome that and put it back in the show. I’ll be performing it on this tour. It’s the only element of the show nobody will insure me for.

"I’ve been performing magic all my life and also teaching it."

Tickets are on sale now. Visit mayflower.org.uk or call 023 8071 1811.

 

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